27-1-29 - Delivery of books and other documents to successors in office. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 27-1-29. Delivery of books and other documents to successors in office.
 

At the expiration of his term of office, each assessor and tax collector or assessor shall deliver to his successor all books, papers, receipts, assessment rolls, and other documents pertaining to the office of assessor in like manner as the tax collector under the provisions of Section 27-29-31, Mississippi Code of 1972. Each sheriff and tax collector whose term of office shall expire in 1972 shall deliver documents of his office to the succeeding tax collector whether the holder of a separate office or the assessor and tax collector. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 9098-07; Laws,  1968, ch. 369, § 16, eff from and after passage (approved August 8, 1968).